His credentials? Obiang seized power in 1979 by killing his own uncle, a man who was even creepier than the current "democratically elected" despot. Uncle Francisco Macias Nguema broke away from Spain and declared independence in 1968.

Quite the darling, Nguema had a habit of sticking his enemy's heads on a pole and parading them through the streets. One third of the population died or fled.

Those opponents who unhappily remained were greeted by torture in the sports stadium on his birthday while the song Those Were the Days drowned out their screams.

Nguema taught his nephew well. When the tyrant-in-waiting caught his uncle trying to flee into the jungle with a suitcase of foreign cash, Obiang put his elder on trial in a cage suspended above 1500 spectators in a rundown cinema, then sentenced him to death 101 times. Obviously, 100 times didn't do the job.

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